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Worsening reports of torture are here (with video) by Unicorn Riot:
[Updated 12:30AM Nov. 21, 2016 CDT]
Police are tear gassing #NoDAPL water protectors, using the LRAD, stinger grenades, and firing less-lethal rounds into the crowd on Highway 1806 bridge in North Dakota. Multiple reports of serious injuries, including one person who was badly injured after being shot in the head with a rubber bullet. 150+ water protectors injured in the last few hours. A 13 yr old girl was reported to had been shot in the face by police, many have lung and eye irritation from tear gas and mace, one person reported to be in critical condition, multiple reports of cardiac arrests, many water protectors are fighting hypothermia after being sprayed with water by police, and many have wounds from rubber bullets. One of our reporters had their press badge shot off when shot in the abdomen with a rubber bullet. Report of seizures after being tear gassed. Police have shot down 3 drones in the last few hours. Police have formed a line with armored vehicles, concrete barriers, and razor wire. It's 24° and police have been hosing down the unarmed crowd with a water cannon for hours now. Water protectors used a semi truck in an attempt to remove burnt military vehicles which the police chained to concrete barriers weeks ago to keep the bridge blocked on 1806.
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The DAPL horizontal drill was reported to be in place on its pad earlier tonight by Unicorn Riot (you can support their work here!).
Obama should stop this now instead of, as he said 2 week ago, “let it play out for several more weeks”.
The Rules are already in place for Obama to act: the unceded Sioux Territory map of 1851 Ft. Laramie treaty, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples for which President Obama announced United States support, which according to the U.S. State Department —while not legally binding or a statement of current international law— has both moral and political force. His honorable defense of the rights of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to oppose the DAPL should match the character ascribed to him by his Nobel Peace Prize award. He should cancel DAPL right now in in the current National Native American Heritage Month.